A scholar has no ennui. [ Richter ]
Each day is the scholar of yesterday. [ Publius Syrus ]
Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
A fitful tongue of leaping flame:
A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
A few swift years, and who can show,
Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe? [ O. W. Holmes ]
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. [ Talmud ]
A diligent scholar, and the master's paid. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who robs a Cambridge-scholar, robs twenty. [ Proverb ]
A mere scholar at court is an ass among apes. [ Proverb ]
Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster. [ Proverb ]
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which preceded. [ Publius Syrus ]
You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]
Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. [ Emerson ]
An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill'd with calves' brains without any sage in them. [ Webster ]
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. [ Washington Irving ]
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance around his book-shelves. [ O. W. Holmes ]
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. [ Emerson ]